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23-05-2016, 04:18 PM | #31 | ||
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Ford Taurus.
Looking at the US Ford website, they have tons of good features, would be a great replacement for the Falcon. They do some crackers in the USA too...like the SHO AWD version with the 3.5 V6 365hp ecoBoost motor. I'm still yet to be convinced exactly why people are so dismissive of a car just because it's FWD...and no, don't go on about "towing". Virtually no one buys Falcons or Commodores to tow big vans, horse floats, or big boats...they use four wheel drives and SUV's and twin cab utes. For people who don't really care about doing burnouts or getting the tail out...ie: 99% of new car buyers...they don't know or even care which end is doing the driving. |
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23-05-2016, 05:37 PM | #32 | |||
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I love the size of my XR50 but the unpredictability in the wet of RWD makes me want to go back to AWD or even FWD.
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23-05-2016, 06:43 PM | #33 | ||
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Looks alot more modern than the FGX.
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23-05-2016, 08:18 PM | #34 | ||
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Looks like Taurus / Hyundai offspring.....
Old fashioned and try hard Korean prestige.
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23-05-2016, 10:20 PM | #35 | |||
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[L] XR6 [R] TURBO Badging on if I can read the Chinese (Changan Ford joint venture) Ford Taurus Titanium [L] Taurus Titanium [R] 长安福特 (Changan Ford) It would be like badging an Australian Ford Falcon as: [L] XR6 Turbo [R] Ford Australia/NZ Then there was [L] HOLDEN [R] SL TURBO Chinese people mainly buy Japanese/German branded cars. They generally steer clear of Commodores/Falcons unless: 1. They do not like the Toyota Camry/Aurion 2. They are cheapskates but still want a big cheap car (LPG Ford Falcon) 3. It's what's only available left at auctions or sales 4. They probably have a loving and understanding Anglo Aussie girlfriend/wife/partner 5. They just want to be different from everyone else Crikey you've deciphered one reason why I drive my personal Ford Falcon turbo taxi But but we can't have crampboxes like kei-cars in Japan as America and Australia are large car countries. I'd stop there, I chose not to purchase on brand alone. If I didn't want rear wheel drive then I might as well have bought a Mercedes-Benz CLA200 instead.
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23-05-2016, 10:30 PM | #36 | ||
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Amazing how similar the FGX falcon and this Taurus look.
Why did Ford invest so much designing a new falcon when they could have just taken the Taurus blueprint and mirrored it for RHD?
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23-05-2016, 10:54 PM | #37 | ||
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They invested very little in FGX in comparison to what it would have cost to invest in 7th gen Taurus, and they still wouldve been left in the same position of building a car in a segment not enough people are buying.
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24-05-2016, 07:25 AM | #38 | ||
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Release it with 8 badges all over it and chinese customers would buy it..
Good luck number. Fusion 888? Torino 888? Mustang sedan 888? Well you get the picture |
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26-05-2016, 09:29 AM | #39 | ||
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Gee,
For the PRC market, it'll have to be sold with safety vest and triangle, and if I'm not mistaken for new market requirements - a rear fog.
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26-05-2016, 12:08 PM | #40 | |||
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China: 888 and a can of baby formula Would sell in droves
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When close is good enough and the 6 MPS in the driveway has FoMoCo written all over the place. Xr5 for sale shortly...just not a hatch guy |
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26-05-2016, 01:22 PM | #41 | |||
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The SHO AWD Taurus is no doubt a good car, but quite different to what buyers of Aussie performance sedans are used to. The Taurus is bigger outside, smaller inside, (from what I understand of the current model at least) heavier (thanks to the AWD) yet still nose heavy with a transversely mounted engine which rules out a V8 and providing an understeer biased chassis setup with positively anti-sporting proportions with it's massive front overhang and short dash to axle ratio. So while it may outperform the current Falcons when it comes to raw numbers, (does it? not sure) the driving experience would be quite different (as in, worse) mainly because it isn't RWD. There are a lot of reasons many people insist on RWD and it has nothing to do with towing or burnouts. **edit** I do completely agree however that the vast majority of car buyers have no knowledge or interest in which wheels are doing the driving. Last edited by tranquilized; 26-05-2016 at 01:37 PM. |
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26-05-2016, 04:58 PM | #42 | ||
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In chinese , 8 means prosperity and good luck , while 4 means death and bad luck. Technically shouldn't the Taurus for China be a V8, sporting an 8 Speed Auto. Nothing beats 8 cylinders of good luck thumping away under the hood.
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26-05-2016, 07:40 PM | #43 | ||
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that's where the FGX got its busted *** face from
poor Falcon, what a way for an Aussie icon to go out |
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27-05-2016, 02:32 PM | #44 | ||
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Ahh, but you can always put a paper bag over her face... :P
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27-05-2016, 02:38 PM | #45 | ||
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It's fortunate that at least with the Sprints most stock vehicles will only see the taillights, which is a pretty attractive butt in most books. ;)
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27-05-2016, 04:49 PM | #46 | ||
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Butt is Taurus too
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27-05-2016, 08:19 PM | #47 | ||
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27-05-2016, 09:30 PM | #49 | ||
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27-05-2016, 09:35 PM | #50 | ||
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28-05-2016, 08:40 AM | #52 | ||
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Here is some more shots, cause it does look cool and it's interesting to see the similarities between the two. Proportions i think are better in the falcon, the taurus looks pudgy while the falcon looks wider and lower.
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